Brew error: Could not symlink, path is not writable

Question

When I try to install a library with homebrew (brew install aLibrary), I got the following error:

Could not symlink lib/pkgconfig/a         


        

Answer 1

You should simply give the permission to your account by running this command on terminal.

sudo chown -R $(whoami) (path)

In your case: sudo chown -R $(whoami) lib/pkgconfig/aFile /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig